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Solstice DiskSuite Soft Partitions

28 Feb 2006 1 minute read 2772 visits.

SVM provides the ability to create more partitions than the limit of 7 using traditional partitions. Such partitions are called soft partitions.

17 Jan 2005 1 minute read 2855 visits.

Did you know that it is also possible without a volume manager? You just have to know some special arguments to the mkfs command.

31 Aug 2002 4 minute read 3267 visits.

Solstice DiskSuite is a software product that enables you to manage large numbers of disks and the data on those disks.

6 Dec 2000 6 minute read 1065 visits.

A simple article highligting the raid levels and arry types available for the Solaris operating system

2 Sep 2002 2 minute read 2913 visits.

A simple procedure to replace a failed SCSI disks which is mirrored with Solstice DiskSuite without the need to reboot the Solaris server.

24 Jun 1999 4 minute read 3126 visits.

A full discussion is beyond the scope of this article, so we will focus on the most common cases, how to set them up, manage them and maintain them.

26 Apr 1999 1 minute read 2720 visits.

A metatrans device is identical to any other kind of metadevice. In order to configure the device it is assumed there is a free slice on each disk.

26 Apr 1998 1 minute read 2731 visits.

Creating a RAID 5 metadevice with DiskSuite is extremely simple. Unlike creating mirrors which involves several steps.